Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: Frank unravels Obama’s speech announcing the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins with what Obama got right. In the end, it is the geo-strategic conditions created by the President which are most ominous for our allies in Iraq.
The president’s speech was long on calling the Iraqis to, “step up to the plate” to do what they need to do to determine their own destiny. It failed to acknowledge that that is made vastly more difficult by the uncertainties that our departure, the vacuum of power that we are creating, is conveying to the people of Iraq and the extent to which that vacuum is being filled by those Al Qaeda elements, the Baathists elements, and certainly Iran. This is all very troubling stuff. Again, it is an argument against the kinds of steps that the president was taking with such great fanfare.
Frank further describes the collective effect of Obama’s policy:
We engaged in a strategic retreat from the world. We did so in the interest of pandering to domestic political elements and considerations. We failed to understand the nature of the enemy. Let alone, to articulate and act effectively on a correct understanding that it wasn’t just Al Qaeda we were up against; that it is in fact those who practice and would impose on the rest of us what authorities of Islam call Sharia.
Listen to Frank’s entire monologue here: [audio: http://www.securefreedomradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/09012010_Seg1_FrankMono_11min4.mp3]
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